Jul 25, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 14 segments
Following on from an episode way back in 2021, Izzy and Anna decide to revisit the question ‘What is the point of art?’. This time, rather than trying to cover all points of art as they did before…
So the book is called Mad World, The Politics of Mental Health and it's by someone called Micah Fraser Carroll.
It's a damn good book.
It's It is genuinely a fantastic book.
It's actually...
It's pretty
short, to be honest.
I'm going to see...
I want to say it's, like, under 200 pages.
Yeah, it is under 200 pages.
And you said it was very, like, accessibly written.
Yeah, I think...
It's basically, as you can imagine, like a pretty heavy topic for a book to discuss.
Just to give you like a bit of an overview, it's sort of split into 10 different chapters and then it has an introduction and a conclusion.
And within each chapter, it kind of discusses around a particular topic.
So the first chapter, it speaks about asylums and like the history of asylums, the current use of asylums.
And you wouldn't think that that would be like a gripping and like accessible, easy read.
But honestly, the way she writes is fantastic.
Like it's very engaging.
But yeah.
it's a very interesting book and I would recommend everyone read it like I learnt a lot from it and I definitely found that my so like you know sometimes you like read something or watch something or engage with something and and it genuinely changes the way you think about something.
This book did that for me.
Like I said, less than 200 pages long.
And I'd say within the first couple of chapters, I was already being like, oh, wow, I really hadn't considered things that way before.
That's really interesting.
And yeah, it just, it's a very good read.
So the book is called Mad World, The Politics of Mental Health and it's by someone called Micah Fraser Carroll.
It's a damn good book.
It's It is genuinely a fantastic book.
It's actually...
It's pretty
short, to be honest.
I'm going to see...
I want to say it's, like, under 200 pages.
Yeah, it is under 200 pages.
And you said it was very, like, accessibly written.
Yeah, I think...
It's basically, as you can imagine, like a pretty heavy topic for a book to discuss.
Just to give you like a bit of an overview, it's sort of split into 10 different chapters and then it has an introduction and a conclusion.
And within each chapter, it kind of discusses around a particular topic.
So the first chapter, it speaks about asylums and like the history of asylums, the current use of asylums.
And you wouldn't think that that would be like a gripping and like accessible, easy read.
But honestly, the way she writes is fantastic.
Like it's very engaging.
But yeah.
it's a very interesting book and I would recommend everyone read it like I learnt a lot from it and I definitely found that my so like you know sometimes you like read something or watch something or engage with something and and it genuinely changes the way you think about something.
This book did that for me.
Like I said, less than 200 pages long.
And I'd say within the first couple of chapters, I was already being like, oh, wow, I really hadn't considered things that way before.
That's really interesting.
And yeah, it just, it's a very good read.
Every episode on Radar is fully transcribed, speaker-labeled, and rich with metadata. Here is a taste of this one. Try Radar for free to see the rest.
3 of 4
Rethinking Mental Hospitals
Izzy challenges everything about psychiatric hospitals today
Birth Of Hospital Rooms
How two friends transformed bleak psychiatric wards
Workshop Sparks Recovery
Watercolor garden workshop sparks someone's recovery start
+1 more clip · 4 min 24 sec of audio in all
7 of 25
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
All 4 clips — the highlight moments, each cut as its own audio, with a title and a speaker
All 14 segments — the transcript broken into labeled sections, every ad read marked
All 25 topics — jump to every other episode discussing the same subject
Every related episode — other shows Radar links to this one
No account is needed to search Radar.
